Shapiro Foundation Grants

The Shapiro Foundation Grants, led by Ed and Barbara Shapiro, focus on addressing urgent needs of vulnerable refugee families in Greater Boston. Their commitment stems from a personal dedication to humanitarian efforts, ensuring that both immediate and structural challenges are effectively addressed.

We are Ed & Barbara Shapiro, and along with our two young-adult children, we make up The Shapiro Family. Our philanthropic work through the Foundation is an incredible labor of love and each one of us invests considerable time into the meaningful projects that we get involved with.
Ed and Barbara led a successful community-wide effort--including local, regional and national partners—to sponsor refugee families being resettled in Greater Boston. This program convinced Ed to start his next chapter, retiring from his 27-year investment management career in order to devote himself full-time to tackling the global refugee crisis.
How We Partner
We see our work following along a continuum of serving immediate needs of the most vulnerable refugees and solving complex, structural problems in the resettlement system.
Those are two decidedly critical roles, and each context presents a different mix of the two. Put simply, we feel compelled to serve where we identify critical gaps in provisioning for the most pressing needs such as shelter, food, water and education. We attempt to solve when we identify opportunities to address structural gaps in refugee program (such as resettlement).